stevegrant

Nick can say what he likes, sod all to do with me.

This.

Here's the footage from SSN - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCEphK--8o

The means does not in any way, shape or form justify the ends. Particularly given that we haven't even reached the sodding end yet - for all we know the Pinnacle thing could collapse tomorrow and then what? You'd be looking a complete ****, that's what. I still stand by my belief that if more people had ignored the fact that Lowe was the chairman and "supported" the team, we wouldn't find ourselves in this complete ****up of a situation.

Updated file now available, so ner ner ner ner ner, etc

This has intrigued/worried me as well.

I'm not entirely sure that would be a good thing...

The main problem I see with Keegan is that at every club he has managed, he has had a generous (to put it mildly in some cases) transfer kitty to play with - with Fulham in the same division as we're now in, he spent £2m just on Barry Hayles - will he have the same luxury here? I doubt it, personally.

I could have gone but chose not to. I'd just got back from Barcelona having watched England play terribly in a 3-0 win against Andorra and saw that we had about 10 first-team regulars out injured and we'd been on a terrible run of form beforehand as well, so couldn't be bothered. Schoolboy error.

6-0 win at Wolves.

That's looking the best bet right now.

Very, although the most pathetic thing is that you have to pay £104 + VAT for the privilege of them sending an e-mail with the overpriced product you've just bought! Sadly, until someone with bottomless pockets forms a legal challenge to the system (highly unlikely), things will remain the same.

There is a reason why the fixtures haven't been posted in full on the forum. Why do you think they've not been posted at all up until now? The fixtures are (ludicrously so, but until someone with bottomless pockets takes the leagues on, it will remain this way) subject to copyright and only those who possess a licence are allowed to publish the fixtures. SaintsWeb DOES have a licence, but two of the terms of the licence are: 1. that a particular line of text is placed on all pages where the fixtures are to be displayed - we don't have this on the forum, but we DO have this on the main site, http://www.saintsweb.co.uk 2. that the fixtures are not placed on pages where there are adverts - those who are "Registered Users" will see adverts on every page of the forum, hence we would be contravening the terms of our licence to display them here. What utter gibberish. If any of the links that have been posted crash your computer, you probably have a computer from 1853. The Daily Echo and the BBC have large resources which ensure that their sites run well. You are viewing the SaintsWeb forum, which strangely enough runs on the same server and domain name as the SaintsWeb main site, which has also been linked to. They all work fine.

No, for two reasons: 1. We have to display the fixtures licence information on every page where fixtures are shown - the licence information isn't shown on the forum (yet). 2. One of the conditions of the licence is that the fixtures are displayed on a page without adverts. For the normal "Registered Users", they have adverts on every page on the forum, so we'd be contravening those conditions.

Total was about £450 inc VAT, which is a fair bit cheaper than last season - they have the cheek to charge £104 + VAT for "delivery", which is basically e-mailing a Word document, and has come down from £150 + VAT from last season. Bit of a joke really. No idea if anyone even applied for it, but I remember speaking to Graham Hiley about it a few years ago and he said they'd probably try to avoid allowing anyone to have that as they didn't want to be seen to favour any one site over the rest. Should be fine - e-mail it to me when it's done and I'll upload it and link to it from the main site's fixtures page.

1. Technically, yes. 2. Technically, no. 3. Don't see why not, although they might not have entirely up-to-the-minute information available.

Nothing of the sort - we chose not to even ask the club about the "Nominated Fanzine" status as it may be perceived to compromise the site's independence, so we have paid for a full licence.

Amusing... seems as though the OS (along with loads of others) didn't manage to get the fixtures live for 10am, having obviously been advertising "see them here first" - http://www.pafc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10364~1694709,00.html

Yep.

The Press Association sent the fixtures out to everyone with a licence at 8am this morning.

It may well be in Hartlepool in November on a Tuesday night though...

I think the entire contents of my collection (including stands, floodlights, ridiculous throw-in takers, etc) are currently located in my parents' loft. I somehow doubt I'll ever be playing it again, to be honest.

Utterly uninspiring, but at least gives us a decent chance of progressing to the next round. The return of Stuart Gray as well...

Dagenham or Barnet away, please.

West Ham told the Premier League they'd torn up the third party contract between them and MSI.